Pro-Life Subversion
To take steps toward the reappear
ance alive of the disappeared is a sub- versive act, and measures will be
adopted to deal with it.
Gen. Oscar MejIa Victores
Guatemalan Chief of State
March 15, 1985
For Embargoes, A Time and Place
In justifying the trade embargo and
depriving Nicaragua’s airline of land-
ing rights and its flag ships of port facilities in the United States, Admin-
istration officials spoke of the need to send a strong signal to Nicara-
gua, Cuba and the Soviet Union that
the Administration would persist in
pressing Managua to agree to Ameri- can demands to sever its close ties
to the Communist world and to agree
to church-mediated negotiations be-
tween the Sandinistas and the rebels.
The New York Times
April 19, 1985
In his address, [Secretary of State Georgel Shultz charged that U.S.
sanctions against South Africa would
be ”ineffectual actions that are more likely to strengthen resistance to
change than strengthen the forces of reform.”
He said: “The only course consis- tent with American values is to en-
gage oursejves as a force for construc- tive, peacefut change. It is not our business to cheer on, from the sidejines, the forces of polarization
that could erupt into a race war; it is not our job to exacerbate hardship,
which could lead to the same result.” At another point, he said, “We
must not stand by and throw Ameri- can matthes on the emotional tinder
of the region.”
The Washington Post
April 17, 1985
More Anti-Cuba Fever
[News conference held by “well- known Managua doctor” Ronald
Sabonge, from Managua Radio Cor-
poracion]
Q: What danger is there [words indis-
tinct] the arrival of dengue? A; I believe that in order to prevent
the disease, all persons arriving from
Cuba, regardless of who they may be, should be isolated for several days.
Any Cuban could arrive here, even
Fidel Castro, who had been bitten by a
mosquito. The mosquito bites him be-
fore he leaves for Nicaragua and the
disease has an incubation period. Dur-
ing this period he does not have any
symptoms, and he may come here,
where one of our mosquitos bit him –
a healthy mosquito, let us say, that
does not carry the virus. The mosquito
takes the virus from Castro’s blood
and it can bite anyone in Nicaragua.
Therefore, apart from any other mea- sures, persons arriving from Cuba should be placed in quarantine for
several days.
Q; Is there any vaccination against
dengue? A: There are vaccines, so far as we
know – some vaccines. One of these has been produced in the United States. It is effective, but it hasn’t
been used in any affected country.
Foreign Broadcast
information Service
August 4, 1981
All In the Family Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, a
former businessman and political fig-
ure in Nicaragua who is now overall
leader of the largest rebel group, the
Nicaraguan Democratic Force,
explained [Jeane Kirkpatrick’sI im- portance when he spoke at a dinner in her honor Tuesday night. He said there are “two great ladies that
Nicaraguan freedom fighters hold in
great esteem, whom we do not even refer to by name. In the case of the
Virgin Mary we call her ‘our lady,’ in
the case of Mrs. Kirkpatrick it is ‘the
a y The New York Times
April 19, 1985
According to [contra leaden Mr.
Calero, a group of as many as I ,000
rebels camped in Nicaragua, close to
the Honduran border, shot off flares
and celebrated all night upon learning
of President Reagan’s re-election vic-
tory last week. “No place in the world
was so excited and happy that night,”
he said.
The New York Times
November 13, 1984
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